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NBC: Trump considering a move to invoke Insurrection Act
Posted on 6/1/20 at 4:15 pm
Posted on 6/1/20 at 4:15 pm
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is considering invoking a 213-year-old federal law that would allow him to deploy active-duty U.S. troops to respond to protests in cities across the country, according to four people familiar with the internal White House discussions.
Trump has warmed to the idea of using the Insurrection Act, adopted in 1807, to deploy troops as his frustrations mount over the protests that have followed the death of George Floyd, a black man who was killed in police custody last week in Minneapolis.
Some of the president’s aides have been encouraging him for days to invoke the act, as he weighs options for exercising executive powers to address the crisis. The act was last invoked during the 1992 Rodney King riots in Los Angeles.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment for this article but at a briefing with reporters Monday, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany left open the possibility that the president could invoke the act.
“The Insurrection Act, it’s one of the tools available, whether the president decides to pursue that, that’s his prerogative,“ McEnany said.
This post was edited on 6/1/20 at 4:16 pm
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Posted on 6/1/20 at 4:17 pm to GEAUXmedic
TYRANT!!!!!!!!!
/sarcasm
/sarcasm
Posted on 6/1/20 at 4:17 pm to GEAUXmedic
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according to four people familiar with the internal White House discussions.
Stopped reading right there. Fake news.
Posted on 6/1/20 at 4:17 pm to GEAUXmedic
If you want something done right... do it yourself ....
It’s clear these Mayors will let it all burn down.
It’s clear these Mayors will let it all burn down.
Posted on 6/1/20 at 4:17 pm to GEAUXmedic
quote:
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany left open the possibility that the president could invoke the act.
Her and Trump can play the media like a fiddle
Posted on 6/1/20 at 4:17 pm to GEAUXmedic
Not sure if I agree with it.
It could pour gas on this whole thing and backfire.
It might be needed if he can get Black leaders to reel in BLM so it's solely antifa the military can focus on stopping.
It could pour gas on this whole thing and backfire.
It might be needed if he can get Black leaders to reel in BLM so it's solely antifa the military can focus on stopping.
Posted on 6/1/20 at 4:17 pm to GEAUXmedic
He'll lose my support if he does this.
It's a horrible move.
Let these democrat run cities rest on their own policies.
It's a horrible move.
Let these democrat run cities rest on their own policies.
Posted on 6/1/20 at 4:18 pm to Magician2
He's not going to do this. This is the first page of art of the deal.
Posted on 6/1/20 at 4:19 pm to GEAUXmedic
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The act was last invoked during the 1992 Rodney King riots in Los Angeles.
Trump could literally copy almost verbatim President Bush's speech for the 1992 LA Riots. YouTube
Bush was big on Law and Order and vowed to use whatever means necessary to put down the violence and he did just that.
quote:
Here are the time stamps for each line of the sample from RIOT - The Mob
0:29 Tonight I want to talk to you about violence in our cites
3:06 Its been the brutality of the mob
3:12 I will use what ever force is necessary, to restore order.
12:35 The violence will end
President Trump, honor what you ran on in 2016.
Law and Order.
This post was edited on 6/1/20 at 4:20 pm
Posted on 6/1/20 at 4:19 pm to Breesus
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He'll lose my support if he does this.
It's a horrible move.
Let these democrat run cities rest on their own policies.
Isn't this fricking great?
We have dueling threads of his supporters saying "He will lose my support" if he does anything in the entire range of responses.
We are a nation of fundamentally evil people and fools
Posted on 6/1/20 at 4:19 pm to upgrayedd
It's NBC News. 99% chance it's fake news trying to sell the "Trump is a dictator" narrative.
Posted on 6/1/20 at 4:20 pm to Breesus
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Let these democrat run cities rest on their own policies.
He has a sworn duty to protect this nation from enemies both foreign and domestic. You can’t let cities burn just because democrats in these democrat controlled shitholes decide they want chaos.
Posted on 6/1/20 at 4:21 pm to Breesus
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He'll lose my support if he does this. It's a horrible move. Let these democrat run cities rest on their own policies.
I agree with you. This is a failure of state and local governments and they should be handling their own messes.
Also, I want to quote the exact text of the most relevent section of the Act, 10 U.S. Code §?252, for everyone's consideration:
quote:
Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion.
I don't believe it's gotten to the point that it's "impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings". It's still practical to do, it's just not being done well enough.
Posted on 6/1/20 at 4:21 pm to Sentrius
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Trump could literally copy almost verbatim President Bush's speech for the 1992 LA Riots.
Bush was big on Law and Order and vowed to use whatever means necessary to put down the violence and he did just that.
That was also an election year. Just pointing that out.
Posted on 6/1/20 at 4:21 pm to jatilen
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It's NBC News. 99% chance it's fake news trying to sell the "Trump is a dictator" narrative.
very good point
Posted on 6/1/20 at 4:21 pm to GEAUXmedic
Knew it get ready for the Marines to come out!!
Posted on 6/1/20 at 4:24 pm to GEAUXmedic
quote:Just caught four more leakers
according to four people familiar with the internal White House discussions.
This post was edited on 6/1/20 at 4:25 pm
Posted on 6/1/20 at 4:24 pm to Jwho77
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That was also an election year. Just pointing that out.
And it's a good bet that there were goober Bush supporters that year that were scared about how Bush would look using it.
Just like the goober Trump supporters on this board clutching their pearls that say Trump should just twiddle his thumbs and let it burn in order to avoid being called a racist dictator.
Posted on 6/1/20 at 4:26 pm to GEAUXmedic
We're waiting
Posted on 6/1/20 at 4:26 pm to Fireman17
1992 was an election year and GHWB, who used the Insurrection Act in Los Angeles, LOST.
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